The dysLEXIEa Project  

This work explores how neurodivergent minds perceive and process the world, not through linear narratives or conventional clarity but through disruption, layering, and reinterpretation. Using visual fragmentation, reversed text, blurred symbols, and spatial distortion, I aim to translate internal cognitive experiences into visible form. These are not just aesthetic choices; they are deliberate methods of unsettling the viewer's expectations, mirroring how many neurodivergent individuals must constantly adapt to systems not designed for them.

Inspired by my MRI brain scans — images that reveal and abstract the brain's internal workings — I draw parallels between clinical imaging and artistic expression. Just as these scans attempt to capture intangible processes, my work grapples with the challenge of making visible the fluid, non-linear, and often misunderstood nature of neurodivergent thought. My own experience with dyslexia informs this process intimately. In my hands, what may appear as error, confusion, or disorder in language becomes a visual vocabulary of difference — a reframing of perceived limitation into aesthetic and conceptual strength.

The materials I choose — watered-down paint, charcoal, and cloth — are transient, absorbent, and raw. They soak, smudge and shift in ways that resist control, echoing the mental processes that are often hard to pin down. These materials blur boundaries between permanence and impermanence, order and chaos, visibility and invisibility. They hold memory, gesture, and ambiguity, allowing the work to exist in a constant state of becoming rather than completion.

The visual language of this work is intentionally elusive. It resists instant legibility, asking viewers to slow their gaze, sit with uncertainty, and reconsider their assumptions about coherence, logic, and what counts as "understanding." The work embraces slowness and discomfort as generative spaces, inviting viewers to engage not with answers but with presence.

By translating inner cognitive realities into external, tangible forms, I aim to foster empathy and shift how we see both art and neurodiversity. This portfolio is not simply an exhibition of visual work — it is a conceptual framework, a provocation, and a quiet resistance. A resistance to rigid definitions of intelligence and ability, to systems that privilege clarity over complexity. It is a call to reimagine difference not as a deficit but as a vital and generative part of the human condition — one that deserves not just accommodation but celebration.